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Dr. Robert Wagner Gibson, medical director and trustee of The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, is currently president-elect of the American Psychiatric Association. Since his 1948 graduation from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, and subsequent internship at Bryn Mawr Hospital in Pennsylvania, Dr. Gibson has assumed an increasingly prominent role within the academic, clinical, and organizational sectors of psychiatry.
His academic appointments include Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Maryland Medical School, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. He has made major contributions to psychiatric research and education through his numerous technical writings.
Dr. Gibson joined the staff of The Sheppard Pratt Hospital as clinical director in 1960, and three years later became this Institution's fourth medical director. During his tenure, he has been the catalyst in dramatic program changes. Under his leadership, Sheppard